Good evening hackage developers,
please consider merging this patch to hackage-server.
The rationale (and the patch itself) is very simple: to point to the
more precise (and more clear) documentation for the chosen estimator.
Thanks
-F
>From cb72114971dbe0e63cd267076178e2ca62c6cfda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:48:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix estimator explanation
---
Distribution/Server/Features/Votes/State.hs | 2 +-
datafiles/templates/Html/package-page.html.st | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Distribution/Server/Features/Votes/State.hs b/Distribution/Server/Features/Votes/State.hs
index a493dfe..aa72e6d 100644
--- a/Distribution/Server/Features/Votes/State.hs
+++ b/Distribution/Server/Features/Votes/State.hs
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ userVotedForPackage pkgname uid votes =
Nothing -> False
Just _ -> True
--- Using Laplace's rule of succession to calculate scoring
+-- Using a Bayesian average (m=1.5, C=2) to calculate scoring
votesScore :: Map UserId Score -> Float
votesScore m =
let grouping = map (head &&& length) . group . sort . Map.elems $ m
diff --git a/datafiles/templates/Html/package-page.html.st b/datafiles/templates/Html/package-page.html.st
index 28fb2c4..c8771c9 100644
--- a/datafiles/templates/Html/package-page.html.st
+++ b/datafiles/templates/Html/package-page.html.st
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
<tr>
<th> Rating</th>
<td>$if(hasVotes)$$score$ (votes: $votes$)$else$(no votes yet)$endif$
- <span style="font-size: small">[estimated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession";>rule of succession</a>]</span></td>
+ <span style="font-size: small">[estimated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average";>Bayesian average</a>]</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
--
2.11.0
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